Advancing therapy-oriented telemedicine- Does Europe have an answer?

Information Technology has had significant impact on the society and has touched all aspects of our lives. So far, computers and expensive devices have fueled this growth. The challenge now is to take this success of IT to its next level where IT services can be accessed by masses. Masses here mean the people who (a) are not yet IT literate and/or (b) do not have the purchase power to use the current IT delivery mechanisms (PC centric model) and/or (c) do not find current IT solutions and services relevant to their life or business. Interestingly, a huge portion of the world's population falls in this category. To enable the IT access to such masses, this workshop focuses on easy-to-use and affordable, yet powerful, user interfaces that can be used by this population.

Innovative design is the most important competitive factor for global engineering and manufacturing. Critical challenges include cutting lead times for new products, increasing stakeholder involvement, facilitating life-cycle knowledge sharing, service provisioning, and support. Current IT solutions for product lifecycle management fail to meet these challenges because they are built to perform routine information processing, rather than support agile, innovative work. Active Knowledge Modeling (AKM) provides an approach, methodologies, and a platform to remedy this situation. This chapter describes the AKM-approach applied by manufacturing industries and consultants to implement pragmatic and powerful design platforms. A collaborative product design methodology describes how teams should work together in innovative design spaces. How to configure the AKM platform to support such teams with model-configured workplaces for the different roles is described in the visual solutions development methodology. The use of this approach is illustrated through a case study and is compared with related work in the enterprise modeling arena to illustrate the novelty of the approach.

The concept of ‘digital divide’ draws attention to the social context of technology usage. Current IT solutions are technology driven and are focussed on elite consumers in cities. In contrast, regional Australian communities face a number of problems such as remoteness, small population and distance. Knowledge and resource constraints also impact on these communities and businesses. Any attempt to transform regions using new information and communications technologies should take into consideration these unique factors. This chapter focuses on information access in two rural communities in Western Australia. A qualitative study followed by a quantitative phase in two regional towns explored how people access information and where information gaps lie. Results of this research suggest that, along with technical infrastructure, equal emphasis should be placed on the human/community element. Without this, regional transformation will remain mere rhetoric.

E-health Information Management according Types of DRGs and ICD Classification Systems: Greek Perspectives and Initiatives

The entry of the Russian economy into the 6th technical and technological structure is a matter that affects ensuring the national security of the state and its transition with the help of artificial intelligence to the creation of new developments and increasing the efficiency of work in many areas of the agro-industrial complex (AIC). This will ensure a transition to a qualitatively new level of management of the global economy. Issues related to the growing role of implementing effective IT technologies in agricultural enterprises and the need for timely recognition and use of the opportunities for continuous improvement of business processes are considered. The analysis of the effectiveness of the implementation of IT solutions, including the necessary resource base for this, was carried out as part of the investment of IT projects. A formula is presented for analyzing the cost-effectiveness of implementing integrated IT systems in food industry enterprises with the need to assess the total costs of an IT system for the entire life cycle (development, implementation, commissioning and development, and decommissioning costs). The introduction of information and communication technologies in food production will reduce the production costs of agricultural enterprises, as well as focus on factors of time, quality and surveillance, since the introduction of a suitable IT system will speed up the optimization of organizational and analytical processes. Significant cost savings and long-term productivity gains are key concepts that form the basis of enterprise success in a modern market economy. The necessity of developing a new integrated methodology is substantiated, allowing to take into account separately the development of software and hardware for digital transformation of enterprises and separately calculate the surplus value from the introduction and use of IT solutions in food production enterprises.

The article is devoted to analyzing the possibilities and effectiveness of integrating information technology into classical methods of teaching foreign languages. It considers the main principles of traditional methods, reveals their strengths and weaknesses in the modern educational context. An overview of current IT tools and resources applicable to linguodidactics is provided, ranging from interactive online platforms and multimedia tools to artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Special attention is given to models and practical examples of integrating IT into grammatical, translational, direct, audio-lingual, and communicative teaching methods. The article also presents results from an empirical study that included a survey of teachers and students. This allowed us to assess the current level of application of IT, identify perceived advantages, and main challenges from the perspective of direct participants in the educational process. Based on the data obtained, conclusions are formulated about the potential of blended learning and practical recommendations are proposed to teachers, educational institutions, and developers of IT solutions for further improvement of foreign language teaching methods in the context of digitalization.

<p>Business process outsourcing of IT solutions is a common and well embedded practice in many businesses. There has been much research into the aspects of the relationships between businesses and their BPO IT partners that make these relationships successful. Very little research has, however, been undertaken at the lower level of relationships between the specialist professional groups within the BPO IT firms, and how these relationships are affected by the roles each group plays. This paper explores these ideas using qualitative research methods within a current BPO IT firm to expose the key issues. Analysis of these themes is provided, and a model of roles and relationships for the professional groups that operate within such firms is proposed that combines the key attributes of the roles, the key relationships involved and the role each group plays within those relationships. Finally, recommendations are made as to the improvement of current practices to align behaviours with the proposed model.</p>

BackgroundThe DH End of Life Care (EoLC) Strategy (2008) identified EPaCCS as an enabler of greater co-ordination of patient care through supporting the elicitation, recording and sharing of people's key...

The current aviation MRO IT landscape

BackgroundClear dialogue-based (interactive) communication that ensures comprehension and recall becomes more important in patient-provider interactions, especially in relation to patients with chronic diseases, where self-management education and counseling are cornerstones in managing these diseases. If patients with chronic disease experience challenges in obtaining, understanding, and applying health-related information (necessary to make informed health decisions and sufficiently manage their health), clear communication and ensuring comprehension become even more critical in the patient-provider interactions. Furthermore, patient-provider communication has been proposed as a potential pathway through which health literacy might influence health outcomes, especially in individuals with chronic diseases. Hence, adjusting communication to the individual level of health literacy might have a positive influence on health outcomes. On this basis, the authors have developed a web-based interactive communication model that both seeks to accommodate health literacy by allowing tailored communication and ensure comprehension and recall between nurses and patients.ObjectiveThis study seeks to examine the use of an IT solution that comprises an interactive communication model that seeks to accommodate health literacy in communication and ensure comprehension and recall between nurses and patients.MethodsA quasi-experimental control group study including full economic evaluation with 6-month follow-up. Based on power calculation, a total of 82 participants will be included. Participants are assigned either the interactive communication model (intervention) or usual nursing care. It will be assessed if the model influences the level of health literacy and participants experience a higher health-related quality of life. Further, cost-effectiveness will be evaluated. Overall, the statistical methods will follow an intention-to-treat principle. Results will be presented in accordance with the Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomized Designs guidelines for nonrandomized designs as well as the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards.ResultsThis paper describes a protocol for a clustered quasi-experimental control study that seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the interactive communicative model. Most studies in the field of health literacy are epidemiological studies that seek to address the effects of poor health literacy in populations and its potential impact on health inequity. A total of 82 participants, who receive community nursing will be included. The final trial day is May 1, 2022, with the first report of results in the final quarter of 2022.ConclusionsThe results of the trial can create the base for conducting a large-scale study and inspire the conduction of more studies that seeks to create and evaluate interventions aimed at enhancing the level of health literacy and reducing the usage of health resources.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT04929314; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04929314International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)DERR1-10.2196/37673

Одной из ключевых особенностей развития мировой экономики в 21-м веке стали стремительное развитие информационных технологий и интенсивная цифровизация практически всех сфер не только промышленного производства, но и жизнедеятельности общества. Это обстоятельство, несомненно, делает актуальным проведение исследований в части выявления современных направлений использования информационных технологий и продуктов цифровой экономики в различных отраслях промышленного производства. Основной целью данного исследования является обоснование необходимости расширения направлений использования современных информационных технологий и продуктов цифровой экономики в различных отраслях промышленного производства, а также выявлении перспективных областей их применения для производства новых видов промышленной продукции. К основным результатам проведенного исследования следует отнести следующие. Проведен анализ основных направлений влияния современных информационных технологий на развитие промышленных предприятий. Определены ведущие отрасли в части информатизации и цифровизации производства и ИТ-решений, используемых в деятельности промышленных предприятий. One of the key features of the development of the world economy in the 21-st century has become the rapid development of information technologies and the intensive digitalization of almost all areas of not only industrial production, but also the life of society. This circumstance undoubtedly makes it relevant to conduct research in terms of identifying modern directions for the use of information technologies and products of the digital economy in various industries. The main purpose of this study is to substantiate the need to expand the areas of use of modern information technologies and products of the digital economy in various industries, as well as to identify promising areas of their application for the production of new types of industrial products. The main results of this study include the following. The analysis of the main directions of the influence of modern information technologies on the development of industrial enterprises is carried out. The leading industries in terms of informatization and digitalization of production and IT solutions used in the activities of industrial enterprises have been identified.

Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) is a high-value aquaculture species whose productivity strongly depends on the quality of broodstock management. In many government-operated hatcheries in Indonesia, feeding practices rely heavily on locally available trash fish without standardized supplementation, potentially affecting broodstock performance and water quality. This study aimed to document and evaluate feeding management practices for barramundi broodstock at the Teluk Buo Hatchery, West Sumatra, Indonesia. A descriptive case study was conducted over a one-month period through direct observation of feeding schedules, broodstock biometric data, and water quality monitoring. Broodstock were fed trash fish and squid at 3% biomass twice daily, supplemented with vitamins C, B-complex, and E on a scheduled basis. The broodstock ranged from 1.5–1.8 kg (males) and 5.7–6.5 kg (females), meeting recommended criteria for reproductive readiness. Water quality remained within optimal ranges (temperature 30.2–31.8 °C, salinity 30–33 ppt, pH 7–8, dissolved oxygen 5.5–6.3 mg/L), in compliance with national standards. These results indicate that structured feeding management contributes to broodstock health, gonadal maturation, and environmental stability. The findings provide a practical, replicable model for coastal hatcheries operating under resource-limited conditions and highlight the need for future studies addressing reproductive performance, economic feasibility, and sustainable feed alternatives.

Feeding cancer registries with data extracted from textual reports, while maintaining a high level of data quality, has always been a labour-intensive task, due to the heterogeneity of the sources. The support of this task by IT solutions is expected to accelerate and optimise this process. To this end, the commercial text mining system Averbis Health Discovery was tailored to extract information from free text at the cancer registry of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The following entity types were extracted from German-language pathology reports: tumour localisation and morphology, pTNM, grading, (sentinel) nodes examined and affected, laterality and R-class. According to the entity type, several machine learning approaches as well as rules were used for the tumour types breast, prostate, colorectal and skin. Whereas for the pilot site, F values ranged between 0.800 and 0.996, values dropped when applying the extraction pipeline to two new sites (cancer registries Rhineland-Palatinate and Lower Saxony), for morphology from 0.950 to 0.657 and 0.933, and for localisation (topography) from 0.902 to 0.675 and 0.768. There was much less difference with R-class and lymph node counts. A thorough error analysis revealed numerous issues that explain these differences, such as different workflows between the sites, disagreements between textual and coded content as well as different handlings of missing values.

IntroductionPatient-reported outcomes (PROs) are measures of a person’s own views of their health, functioning and quality of life. They are typically assessed using validated, self-completed questionnaires known as patient-reported outcome...

BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare often requires large, confidential clinical datasets. However, a recent UK government survey revealed that 20–40% of the public remain sceptical of its use in health research due to concerns about data security, patient–practitioner communication and commercialisation of data. A greater understanding of public attitudes is therefore needed, particularly in the context of stroke research.In this article, we describe the patient and public involvement work undertaken for the AI-Based-Stroke-Risk-fActor-Classification-and-Treatment (ABSTRACT) project, which aims to train AI models to predict future stroke risk from the electronic health records of 1 18 736 patients.AimsWe aimed to evaluate the opinions of stroke/transient ischaemic attack (TIA) patients, caregivers and members of the public on the following themes: (1) the acceptability of using AI to predict stroke from electronic health records, (2) obtaining these data using an opt-out model of consent and (3) allowing access to this dataset from members both within and outside of the routine clinical care team.MethodsA total of 83 participants were recruited via the National Health Service social media and by approaching hospital inpatients. Participants were first provided with background information on stroke, AI in medical research and ABSTRACT’s proposed data handling protocol. A mixed methods approach was then used to explore each of the above themes using online survey, semistructured focus groups and one-to-one interviews.ResultsNearly all participants felt that it was appropriate to use patient data to train AI models to predict stroke risk and that it was acceptable to obtain these data via an opt-out model of consent. Almost all participants also agreed that data could be shared within and outside of the routine clinical care team, provided it was General Data Protection Regulation compliant and used for medical research only.ConclusionThe public and those with lived stroke/TIA experience appeared to support using deidentified medical datasets for AI-driven stroke risk prediction under an opt-out consent model. However, this is provided that the research conducted is transparent, for a clear medical purpose and adheres to strict data security measures.